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Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2003
... after 17 years as a specialist, I’d have to go back to medical school!). The recruitment and retention of family ... field. According to recent statistics, of this year’s medical school graduates only 24% are choosing FP as their ... FPs. In the 1 April issue of the  CMAJ , a news article stated that after the first round of the 2003 ...
Letters / BY: Ken S. Morton, MD March 2003
I would like to comment favorably on Morley Sutter’s article in the  BC Medical Journal  ( Learning and teaching medicine, December ... seen such guidelines stated so clearly and concisely. The article should be required reading for all medical educators ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel W.L. Lai, PhD October 2003
... a response rate of 77%. For the purposes of this article, only data collected from 765 Victoria and Vancouver ... Mental Component Summary (MCS) in a Chinese version of the Medical Outcome Study 36-item Short Form (SF-36), [22]  a ... Objective:  In an aging and culturally diverse society, medical professionals need to understand the health status of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC January/February 2003
... Therefore I have used it as the example for this article. However, for those who work in other areas, simply ... own Stikine Health Centre in 1994, I was the identified medical director of that clinic (read: trouble-shooter) for ... culture that it brings. However, the other aspects of this article can be found in all communities that are rural and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... local recurrence rates. As explained in the previous article, “ Practice patterns and appropriateness of care ... for rectal cancer management in this theme issue of the BC Medical Journal ( 2003;45[6]:264 ) and on the BC Cancer ... surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, radiation and medical oncologists, and UBC residents. Dr Cornelis van de ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD April 2003
... does not make a summer, one swallow is one swallow. The article  “Diabetic blood sugar control: An urban/rural ... [BCMJ 2002;44(10):537]  refers to the Bella Coola Medical Clinic having a nurse “who is actively involved in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC January/February 2003
... and North Vancouver, and, having had no training in medical school about marriage, I was totally unprepared for ... most practical thing.” In 1978 I came across a seminal article by Segraves [2]  that provided a theoretical basis ... that has usually been characteristic of the marriage. This article summarizes the author’s gradual development of a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC May 2002
... to thank Dr Glen Bowlsby for the patient referral, the Medical Library Service of the College of Physicians and ... history taking. Some of the information contained in this article was presented at the Chinese Canadian Medical Society International Conference 2001, 29–30 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce Fleming, MD June 2002
... to be normal translates to significant savings to our medical system and a reduction in the exposure of patients to ... WAD I and less commonly WAD II; see the  Table in the article "Incidence of whiplash-associated disorder"  for a ...
Letters / BY: Yolanda Butt, BSc, MA May 2002
... to commend Dr Malleson for her informative and practical article [1]  addressing the lack of awareness and ... in such an invasive manner. —Yolanda Butt, BSc, MA UBC Medical Class of 2005    Dr Roey Malleson ends her review ... explaining why they remain controversial. Instead, her article ends with the threatening suggestion that those of ...